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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Academic Achievement Tests
Composite Score
Chall's Stage 5
2. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Simultaneous teaching
Battery
ALTA
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
3. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reading Comprehension Support
Analytic
Phoneme
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
4. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Visual Processing
Age equivalent
Percentile
The Norman Conquest
5. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Phonological Awareness
Grapheme
Consonant Digraph
Whole Language
6. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
[-'le
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Mastery level
Phonology
7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Linguistic Method
Phonemic/ decodable words
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Consonant Digraph
8. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Cedilla
Curriculum referenced tests
Tilde
Raw score
9. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Age equivalent
ADHD
Mastery level
10. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Criterion-Referenced Test
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Percentile/ percentile rank
Affix
11. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Impulsivity
Syllable
Accent
Diagnostic tests
12. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Greek layer of language
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
SBOE
Samuel T. Orton
13. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Suffix
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Auditory Learners
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
14. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Diagnostic tests
Trigraph
Phoneme
15. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
Mathew Effect
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
16. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Orthography
Synthetic Instruction
VAKT
Syllable
17. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Criterion referenced tests
Anna Gillingham
Diagnostic tests
Vr
18. Multisensory Structured Language
IDEA
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Cognition
MSL
19. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Diagnostic Teaching
Breve
Base Word
Chall's Stage 1
20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Joe Torgesen
Prefix
Digraph
Standard deviation
21. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
James Hinshelwood
Criterion referenced tests
Open Syllable
22. State Board of Eduation
Frank Smith
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
SBOE
WIATII
23. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Mathew Effect
NICHD
IDEA
Mastery level
24. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Open Syllable
Vowel Digraph
Combination
25. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Social language
Auditory Learners
Pre-English
Accuracy
26. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Receptive language
Progress Monitoring
Tilde
Multi-Sensory Approach
27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Ability
MSL
ADHD
Cognition
28. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Whole Language
Standard deviation
V >
Towre
29. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Chall's Stage 2
Raw score
Standard Scores
Multi-Sensory Approach
30. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Syllable
Components of Reading Instruction
Modification
Receptive language
31. r-controlled syllable
Chall's Stage 4
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Vr
Diagnostic tests
32. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Top-down Reading Approach
RTI
Cedilla
Academic Achievement Tests
33. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Components of Reading Instruction
Criterion-Referenced Test
Semantics
Syllable Instruction
34. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Frank Smith
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Vowel
CTOPP
35. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
RTI
Profile
Letter naming Chart
36. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Derivative
Syntax
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
37. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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38. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
ALTA
Auditory Processing
Stanine Scores
Rate
39. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Standard score
Phonics
Trigraph
Achievement test
40. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
NICHD
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Phonemic Awareness
41. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Keith Stanovich
[-'le
Six basic types of syllables
42. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Chall's Stage 5
RTI
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Syllable
43. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Linguistic Method
Profile
Consonant Digraph
44. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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45. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
CTOPP
Synthetic Instruction
Universal Screening
Morpheme
46. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Cognitive Assessment
Base Word
Texas Education Code 28.06
Diagnostic tests
47. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Diagnostic tests
Sight Words
Cognition
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
48. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
MSLE
Affix
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
49. Closed syllable
VC
Sight Words
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Syllable Instruction
50. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Towre
Morphology
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Visual Learners